F SCOTT FITZGERALD 1896 1940 SHORT STORY WRITER AND NOVELIST FITZGERALD F SCOTT 1896 1940 ARTS AMERICAN CULTURE F SCOTT FITZGERALD WAS BORN IN ST PAUL MINNESOTA HE ATTENDED PRINCETON UNIVERSITY FROM 1913 TO 1917 BUT LEFT BEFORE GRADUATING TO SERVE IN THE ARMY WHILE STATIONED NEAR MONTGOMERY ALABAMA FITZGERALD MET ZELDA SAYRE AFTER LEAVING THE ARMY FITZGERALD PUBLISHED HIS FIRST NOVEL THIS SIDE OF PARADISE 1920 THE BOOK WAS AN INSTANT SUCCESS HE AND ZELDA MARRIED THAT SAME YEAR AND IN 1924 THEY MOVED TO SOUTHERN FRANCE FITZGERALD IS FAMOUS FOR HIS DESCRIPTIONS OF THE JAZZ AGE OF THE 1920S HIS NOVEL THE GREAT GATSBY 1925 IS CONSIDERED AN AMERICAN CLASSIC HIS OTHER NOVELS INCLUDE THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED 1922 AND TENDER IS THE NIGHT 1934 HIS SHORT STORIES ARE COLLECTED IN FLAPPERS AND PHILOSOPHERS 1920 TALES OF THE JAZZ AGE 1922 AND ALL THE SAD YOUNG MEN 1926 FITZGERALD DIED OF A HEART ATTACK WHILE WORKING AS A SCREENWRITER IN HOLLYWOOD HE WAS 44 YEARS OLD
